Aung San Suu Kyi, alone but unbowed

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She sat throughout with a straight back, calmly and intently following the interminable legal arguments. She spoke politely and gravely to the prosecutors and judges. The British Ambassador described her as “composed, upright, crackling with energy”; even the prison police rose to their feet in respect as she entered the courtroom. The Charg? d’Affaires of the Philippines said: “She exuded a type of aura which can be described as moving, quite awe-inspiring.”

If it has brought no other benefit, the trial which came to an end today has given foreign observers rare glimpses of the Burmese democracy leader, Aung San